Penelope, the girl with the pigs face

Advantages: a nice warming storyline, great cast, good filming.
Disadvantages: Not the best film in the world, and not enough promotion!

... PENELOPE Film Only Review Details: Directed by: Mark Palansky Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Comedy Release Date: 1 February 2008 Runtime: 104 minutes Classification: U Starring: Richard E Grant Catherine o Hara Christina Ricci James McAvoy Plot: The Wilhern family have been cursed. 5 generations ago, a scandal in the family caused a witch to curse the family saying that the first born female would have the face of a pig. But from then until the time the film is set, there were no girls born in the Wilhern family, until, Penelope. The curse made Penelope have the face of a pig, and would only wear off once "one of her own" loved her for who she was. Everyone wanted to see the girl with the pigs nose and ears, but her mother was ashamed, she didn't want her daughter to be seen...

stephbond89 18.09.2009 · Read review
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Penelope - Not Up To Scratch

Advantages: Can't think of any...
Disadvantages: Bland, inane dialogue, no character depth.

...Director: Mark Palansky Writer: Leslie Caveny Genre: Comedy - Fantasy - Romance Country: US/USA Certification: U Language: English Released: 26th May, 2008 (DVD) MAIN CAST: Christina Ricci (Penelope) Richard E. Grant (Franklin Wilhern) Catherine O'Hara (Jessica Wilhern) James McAvoy (Johnny / Max) Reese Witherspoon (Annie) Peter Dinklage (Lemon) Simon Woods (Edward Humphrey Vanderman III) Following the despicable actions of a Wilhern who professed to love a family servant and went on to impregnate her and then toss her aside, the Wilhern family is cursed by the servant's mother after she commits suicide. The mother is, in actual fact, a witch, and puts a curse on the family - the first female child of a Wilhern will be born with the face of a pig, and the curse cannot be broken unless she is accepted by...

GoFigure 10.06.2008 · Read review
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Penelope - True love is directly under your NOSE

Advantages: all good
Disadvantages: none

...I am reviewing the DVD - Penelope - The Story The story of a beautiful young girl who was cursed before she was even born. An evil witch placed a curse on a family who rejected her daughter. The curse would only be placed on the next born daughter of the family, so over the years, only men were born into the family until penelope was born. The curse woud transform her beauty so that she would have the nose of a pig, and only true love will transform her back into her real beauty. But who could love a pig? Christina Ricci Stars as Penelope, the cursed daughter, who grew up hidden in her house with her parents and butlers - as she was to much for the public to deal with. Over the years, the mother is preparing her for the day her transformation will be turned back, setting her up on dates, matchmaking etc to try and find...

lesleyanne18 18.01.2009 · Read review
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FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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Is this a severe side effect of Swine Flu ?

Advantages: A good family film with a moral involved
Disadvantages: Very predictable

... This is a film only review of the film Penelope I don't know about you but the regular channels on the TV have been pretty dire lately. Thank goodness that I have Sky Movies!!! After coming home from a couple of days away with the option of Police Booking Motorists or some such muck, political propaganda, American rubbish and Harry Potter AGAIN (we have all the DVD's already) we checked on Sky Anytime and decided to watch the family film 'Penelope'. Penelope is classed as a modern-day fairy tale and it is written by Leslie Caverny, produced by Reese Witherspoon and directed by Mark Palansky. I couldn't actually tell you where it is set, the setting was an unclear place that seems to be America, but then there are so many British actors in it that it could almost just as easily be England (Surprisingly though James...

oldchem 03.09.2009 (09.09.2009) · Read review
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* Penel-Oink-Y*

Advantages: Magical
Disadvantages: Middle Bit Drags on Slightly!

...I was flicking through a magazine one day , when my attention was caught by one of the pages : Staring back at me was a young girl, covering her nose with her hand. The page was advertising a new film called Penelope. I immediately decided that I would like to see this film as it looked like a 'magical , fairytale' kind of movie. Although , as usual , I never actually got round to seeing the film in the cinema , I was eager to borrow the DVD when my friend told me that she owned a copy! Penelope is a romantic , comedy and fantasy movie released in the United Kingdom on February 1st 2008. This film stars young actress , Christina Ricci as well as a few other well known actors and actresses including Reese Witherspoon and James McAvoy. Running time of this movie is one hundred and four minutes (sixteen minutes under two hours). This...

xdonzx 18.08.2009 · Read review
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A Pig's Ear of a Film

Advantages: A reasonable central premise.
Disadvantages: Poor direction, writing, acting and effects.

...Penelope is the only daughter of the wealthy Franklin and Jessica. But she is afflicted by a family curse that can only be broken when she is loved by ?one of her own kind?. In an attempt to break the curse her parents supply her with a seemingly endless stream of aristocratic suitors who all run away screaming when they catch sight of her. Hidden away in her family?s palatial home she longs for a normal life. Then she meets the charming Max Campion, but when she discovers his involvement with an undercover reporter, she runs away from home. She is befriended by Annie and begins to experience real life for the first time? ?Penelope? is a film that feels old-fashioned and not necessarily in a good way. It comes across as one of those Children?s Television Workshop productions they used to show on the BBC on Friday afternoons, rather than...

afy9mab 25.08.2009 · Read review
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Miss Piggy must find love!

Advantages: Funnier than expected!
Disadvantages: None really

...Myself and my husband received lots of DVD's and box sets for Christmas and with both being busy back at work we are still getting through all our new ones! One of the ones we finally managed to sit down and watch was Penelope. After seeing trailers a while back we had both been looking forward to seeing this and were hoping we would enjoy it after waiting so long! Written by Leslie Caveny and directed by Mark Palansky. The story: Penelope is born with the snout of a pig due to a curse put over the Wilhern family many years ago. Sure she'll never find the love of somebody to break the curse she is kept hidden from the world by her parents and is unsuccessful time and time again in attempts at getting to know suitors sent to the house. There is one man though, Johnny, who has a slightly different agenda in mind and wants to...

frankiecesca 08.02.2009 · Read review
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Oink, Oink

Advantages: Charming, funny, romantic, sad, compelling, good cast, great musical scor
Disadvantages: None for me, as long as you accept it for what it is.

...This film only review, only contains minor plot spoilers. Living in a caravan on my small garden, whilst my house is in the process of being dried out from last years floods, has been somewhat soul destroying. In fact it has been a pain in the backside. The young family next door have been in the same situation and so I, and my neighbours daughter, who is eight, took our selves of to the cinema a few weeks ago for a girlie Saturday Afternoon of Cinema, lunch and a little retail therapy. The choice of movie was Penelope. As Katie picked the movie I knew very little about it other than it is the story of a girl with the nose of a pig. Yes, a pig. What I found was that the film was as silly as you would think it would be but very charming. Christina Ricci stars as Penelope and is so very pretty that even with a pig's snout for a nose...

grafter123 13.06.2008 (29.06.2008) · Read review
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